A mass mobilization will be held on September 7, the date on which Brazilian independence is celebrated, under the motto “All life is worthy of care. But who cares?”

Thirty years after it emerged with the motto “Life First”, the Cry of the Excluded (Grito dos Excluídos in Portuguese), a series of mass mobilizations held annually on Brazil’s Independence Day, has much to pay homage to. The space for denouncing the country’s historic social inequalities brings together dozens of social movements. This year to mark the date, these organizations are preparing a massive mobilization in various regions of the country on September 7, under the motto “All life is worthy of care. But who cares?” The details were presented on Tuesday by the organizers.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/09/04/cry-of-the-excluded-marks-30-years-defending-true-independence-in-brazil/

The ninth Forum for China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) or the China-Africa Summit opened on Thursday, September 5 at the Great Hall of the People at Beijing. In the inaugural address the Chinese President Xi Jinping announced to upgrade all existing relations with African countries to the level of “strategic relationship.”

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/09/05/china-upgrades-bilateral-relations-in-africa-to-strategic-relationships-during-china-africa-summit/

#PeoplesHistory | Today, we say Happy Birthday to Claudette Colvin, a pioneer of the Civil Rights movement in the United States.

Colvin was arrested at age 15 in the segregated US South on March 2, 1955, when she refused to give up her seat for a white woman in Montgomery, Alabama. Claudette would then go to court, with the other three plaintiffs in the first federal court case filed by Fred Gray, to challenge the bus segregation in the city.

The brutality of Milei’s far-right government has been put on display with the heavy handed repression doled out to elderly pensioners in the country who have been protesting for an increase in their pensions.

On Monday September 2, the President of Argentina, radical right-winger Javier Milei, vetoed a law that had already passed the first level of the Legislature, and that sought to increase pensions and retirement benefits given the rampant inflation in the country.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/09/05/milei-vetoes-pension-increase-and-doubles-down-on-repression/

French President Emmanuel Macron has finally nominated a new Prime Minister. However, his choice is not someone from the New Popular Front (NFP), the left-progressive alliance that won the most seats in the recent snap election.

Macron's appointment of conservative Michel Barnier as Prime Minister has sparked outrage among progressives in France.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/09/05/macron-faces-protest-over-appointment-of-right-wing-pm/

Last week, a video went viral showing a group of armed men at The Edge at Lowry apartment complex in Aurora, Colorado. The video has made its rounds across the right-wing media and political commentators, capitalizing on the fear mongering around the reported influx of migrants entering the United States, especially from Venezuela.

According to the apartment’s landlord, Brooklyn-based CBZ Management, members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua have taken control of the buildings, stolen rent money from residents, and chased out the property management.

But the right-wing fear mongering over gangs in Colorado obscures the larger issue of landlord neglect, according to residents.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/09/05/right-wing-fear-mongering-over-gangs-in-colorado-obscures-larger-issue-of-landlord-neglect/

Thousands are expected to gather in Ostend, Belgium, on September 7-8 for ManiFiesta, a festival of solidarity organized by a coalition of left organizations in the country.

The event will mark the unofficial start of Belgium’s political season, bringing together activists, trade unionists, and political leaders to discuss some of the most pressing issues in Europe and the world today.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/09/06/manifiesta-brings-a-weekend-of-solidarity-and-activism-to-belgium/

26-year-old US activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi succumbed to her wounds on Friday after being shot by Israeli forces at a protest in Beita, to the south of Nablus.

Headlines from Western mainstream media sources have already attempted to obscure who killed the solidarity activist, with CNN stating “American activist shot dead during protest in West Bank, Palestinian officials say,” CBS News writing, “American woman Aysenur Eygi killed in Israeli-occupied West Bank, US confirms,” and BBC writing. “American activist shot dead in occupied West Bank.”
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/09/06/us-activist-shot-by-israeli-forces-in-west-bank/

Irvin Jim, the general secretary of NUMSA, spoke at the Manifiesta Festival in Ostend, Belgium about how capitalism has driven the world to a state of deep crisis and war. Working class unity, he affirms, is the only way to defeat capitalism.

Manifiesta is an annual festival of solidarity organized by a coalition of left organizations in Belgium. This year, the resistance of the Palestinian people in the face of Israel's genocidal war has taken center stage.

The third anniversary of the end of the two decades of US war and occupation in Afghanistan coincides with a particularly contentious presidential election year in the US. Both the Democrats and Republicans are busy blaming each other for the fiasco.

It is clear that Afghanistan has become yet another embarrassing episode in the long history of US imperial adventures which no one wants to take responsibility for.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/09/06/the-crisis-in-afghanistan-is-a-result-of-us-recklessness/

What is the difference in the foreign policy of Democrats and the Republicans in the US?

Zoe Alexandra, the editor of Peoples Dispatch, spoke at Manifiesta in Ostend, Belgium about the upcoming presidential elections in the United States and reflected on the track record of the two ruling class parties.

Daniel Jadue, a member of the Communist Party of Chile and the former mayor of Recoleta, was released after being held in preventative detention for 91 days.
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Though Israel has been fixated on preventing alleged weapons infiltration from Iran to Palestinian resistance groups in the West Bank through its borders with Jordan, the shooting showcased that the security measures of the Zionist entity are breachable.

As Israel has the longest borders with Jordan, Al-Jazi’s attack has raised concerns of the Israeli military that a new front has been added to its multiple war fronts in the region including the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, the northern borders with Lebanon, and the Red Sea in the south due to continuous attacks by Yemen’s Ansar Allah.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/09/09/jordanian-truck-driver-opens-fire-at-jordan-israel-border-crossing-killing-three-israeli-soldiers/

The calculated and cruel violence suffered by Gisèle Pelicot has shaken the world to its core, yet her demand to make the trial public and shift the shame to the perpetrators of these acts, has inspired many.

The images of a stoic Gisèle Pelicot, who in the small courtroom had to relive events she did not remember, have traveled around the world. However, the victim was quick to say that her expression should not be confused with her state of mind and mental health: “[In the recordings] I am inert, in my bed, and I am being raped. They are barbaric scenes. My world is crumbling, everything is crumbling, everything I’ve built in fifty years. Frankly, for me, they are scenes of terror.”

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/09/09/the-courage-of-gisele-pelicot/